Seems like a lot of work for nothing. Is it likely that he analyzed the problem and found a way to solve it? Who benefited from the dam - him alone or him and all his beaver friends? After all, he's the only one who came up with the idea.
2006-11-24 11:37:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Darwin on natural selection: The differential survival and reproduction of classes of organisms that differ from one another in on or more usually HERITABLE CHARACTERISTICS. Through this process, the forms of organisms in a population that are best adapted to their local environment increase in frequency relative to less well-adapted forms over a number of generations. This difference in survival and reproduction is not due to chance.
But Einstein could believe in a God who knows where every molecule is and where it is going, so Einstein's God could calculate the precise state it is in while we can only estimate the state parameters from an average over the most likely states it might be in.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/glossary
Einsteain on God:
There have been answers to Einstein's beliefs, but he is not here to answer. I'm sure that he could defend himself much more easily than I can.
kee.4t.com/EinGod/EG1114.HTM
2006-11-25 00:06:57 · update #1
SCIENTISTS WHO BELIEVE IN CREATION:
EINSTEIN: “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind”.
DR GEORGE WALD, 1967 Nobel Laureate in Medicine.
Source: english.sdaglobal.org/research/sctstbel.htm
2006-11-25 07:06:04 · update #2
The building of the first beaver dam had to have been a great benefit to all beavers, but since your question has such far reaching implications it would be impossible to address them all on YHanswers.
2006-11-24 11:54:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trees can fall into or across rivers, causing a dam to form as debris collects. The proto-beavers would fish in the pools. Eventually, some learned to bring material that would shore up the dam. Then they learned how to build dams from scratch by dropping a tree in the water and plugging it with debris. The dams got better. Eventually the lodge dam emerged. They imporved to the modern design.
I'm not a beaver expert. This is just a speculation, but it is a demonstration of the gradual process that starts from exploiting a natural feature and evolves into a complex behavior.
2006-11-25 14:00:34 · answer #2 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beavers are rather specialized animals... the original beavers were about 7.5 ft long and lived from alaska to florida... I bet they made impressive Dams.. they seem to have wound down a bit, eh?
there is also a blind fish that can a crab friend who 'team up' work together... one digs a hole to live in the other keeps watch and the blind one touches the 'watchdog' when the watchdog runs deeper in the hole the blind fish does too...
animal symbiosis even in Darwins own words... like the complex behavior of bees... might unravel his own theory... without bees there would be no vanilla you know....without monkeys there might not be cocoa trees.. its sooo interrelated
back onto beaver I believe there used to be much larger beavers than today before the ice age... and possibly before the flood of noah... everything seemed to grown larger then. They would have been the first dam makers and I assume the damns were really DAMNS!!!!
see http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/giantbev.htm
Castoroides
The giant beaver (Castoroides ohioensis) was one of the largest rodents ever known. It reached a length of about 2.5 m and weighed up to an estimated 218 kg. Unlike modern beavers (Castor canadensis), giant beavers had ridged cutting teeth, deep skulls, and probably roundish, muskrat-like tails.
seems like the beaver is devolving rather than increasing in prowess!! I would attribute the beavers abilities to the wise designer of the original
2006-11-24 19:42:03 · answer #3 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, ask yourself why a man decided to try rubbing two sticks together. Did he know it would create a fire? Did he think it would accomplish anything? Seems like a lot of work to accomplish nothing, but it turned out to be quite an accomplishment. Sometimes things start out as small meaningless distractions, but turn into amazing creations. The beaver probably didn't want to just live in a small hole and wanted an openness to his home. Therefore, he built a structure to make it roomy.
2006-11-24 19:43:27 · answer #4 · answered by Gray 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as i know building dams is a beaver's natural instinct, much like a spider weaving a web. It's not a choice the animal makes, it's something that's become an ingrained behavior through the process of evolution.
2006-11-24 19:42:23 · answer #5 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the clan of beavers built the dam knowing what reaction would occur. Given a single purpose it's amazing what things are able to accomplish.
2006-11-24 19:40:01 · answer #6 · answered by b_dubs_3030 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like beaver myself ,man, but this is getting to be an obsession,they have clinics for this kind of thing ,
2006-11-24 19:55:47 · answer #7 · answered by Lee K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When this first beaver found the 1st river or creek to dam.
2006-11-24 19:40:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
likely they started building homes out of scrap wood on land for protection and slowly progressed through hundreds of thousands of years to actively felling trees to build dams for protection and food
did I get a thumbs down for telling the truth?
2006-11-24 19:45:44 · answer #9 · answered by Nick F 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Considering they also build it up as their home, I'm not getting your question of it.
2006-11-24 19:44:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋